I've been using Angular UI Router with a current project and have introduced some compound form inputs that I'd like to use as parameters in URL building for my routes. Essentially, the models I would like to parameterize are object literals, and I'm curious to know if ui-router has any ability to represent these as URL parameters.
In other parts of our application we have represented compound parameters with dot notation, e.g. ?field1.a=&field1.b=&field1.c, and I know some PHP frameworks make use of an array notation, e.g. ?field1[a]=field1[b]=field1[c] for representing multiple form fields associated with a single model.
From what I can tell, angular ui-router doesn't support similar. We are using v0.2.8, and at ~L131 there is a normalization function that will coerce object literals to their [object Object] string representation. It is this value that appears in URLs built with this kind of parameter, e.g. ?field1=[object Object].
I have considered lumping all the relevant fields together as a single parameter with a JSON string value as a workaround, e.g. ?filter={"field1":{}, "field2":{}, ...}, but wanted to check in to see if anyone has a better solution.
Thanks!
